Amazing show. Thank you for bringing this issue to light. Frightening to see and hear intelligent men sit there and brush aside some of the compelling proof that this illness is more than what they want to believe. The arrogance of that one IDSA doc to say “we know about lymes, we know how to treat it”. Medical history proves that statement wrong over and over again.

It’s obvious that the insurance industry has bought the doctors who provide opinions favorable to that industry. But of course for this scheme to work, the docs have to be willing to be bought, and the medical boards have to go along with it. Unfortunately, that’s how America works nowadays, or fails to work in the case of many Lyme patients. Although there may be a psychological element in long-term Lyme, apparently psychologists can’t relieve it, so if antibiotics or placebos help, they should be prescribed and provided for as long as necessary under any insurance plan.

Great Show! Sounds like the crooked politics and socialism is going to kill good citizens,who really need help. I hope you air this show again, so my mother and other people can see and hear about this.

I saw your program on PBS last night in Lamar, CO. My daughter has Lyme Disease and also was not diagnosed for 10 years. She is very sick now. Is it possible to get a DVD of your program. Is there any help out there for her? Thank you for all your excellent programs. There still is intelligence on TV thanks to you.

I wasn’t diagnosed four years after getting it, I never had the bulls eye and many don’t. I go to a doctor in Columbia MO. He is great, my insurance did not cover his bill though. He tests for everything and anything that could be wrong. He helped me and I have to go once a year because my Lymes Disease starts to act up. I’ve taking pills, shots twice a day in my back and had a pick line in my arm. It gets better just once you figure it out and learn how to control it helps. I did all of this while going through high school. I am now 19 years old and it still acts up, I don’t realize it until someone points it out. It was hard on me going through the process of doctors and no one believing me, but with my mom by my side I got through it.

GREAT SHOW!!! I was so angry by the time it was over…who do these people think they are to decide whether someone lives or dies because their disease doesn’t fit their definition of an illness!!! Others have said it already…the political and money based society has gotten ridiculously out of hand! How do we change this!!!

The best way to change the current state of affairs is to keep speaking up and out like you are doing! Educate yourself and educate others You can even purchase an Educational DVD (Community Groups and Nonprofits)of “Under Our Skin” through their website and hold screenings of it in your local community…

Certainly! You can purchase either an “Under Our Skin” DVD for home use and/or an educational DVD for community groups, libraries, universities and other educational organizations and venues (includes public performance rights for DVD purchases), through the store section of the film’s website here:

You can purchase either an “Under Our Skin” DVD for home use and/or an educational DVD for community groups, libraries, universities and other educational organizations and venues (includes public performance rights for DVD purchases), through the store section of the film’s website here:

Don’t be too quick to jump on the “It’s Lyme Disease, Stupid” bandwagon. For once, I think the CDC is taking it slow and not recommending a lifetime of toxic antibiotics for anyone who tests “positive” for some disease. Many of these types of conditions, including Chronic Fatigue and PANDAS, are autoimmune in nature,and may have been brought on by the Lyme Disease infection, but cannot be cured by antibiotics, because the chronic condition is a result of the lingering immune reaction, and not a lingering infection. There just isn’t always a silver bullet pill to cure complex medical conditions. Look at the HIV industry and what it has become…Pharmaceutical companies now suggesting prophylactic use of toxic antiretrovirals for healthy people. Whenever there is a profit potential, someone will create a diagnostic test and a treatment to satisfy the masses. While the tone of the subjects in this film was certainly biased toward wanting more medications more healthcare, the anecdotal evidence was unclear. Perhaps it was just time and innate healing potential that allowed these people to recover.

Hey Robert,
Good points you bring up. The thing is is that at this point there is no way to accurately test whether someone has a persistent infection or not as culturing the spirochetes is often impossible. What studies have shown in that scientists were able to culture spirochetes from many people’s brains and such postmortem, and these were people with known cases of Lyme disease who had persistent symptoms in spite of their having had prolonged treatment with antibiotics. As well, they have shown the same to be the case in autopsies of those with chronic degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and MS and ALS – spirochetes in their brain tissue. So, yes, the infection can certainly set off an auto-immune reaction – molecular mimicry – in the body, but there are so many people with Lyme disease who were sick for years or even decades before receiving treatment, that get better or at least improve greatly after months or years of antibiotics that the idea of “time” healing them doesn’t really ring true for me at least – although I do believe that for some people they do have spontaneous healing. And, yes, there isn’t a silver bullet for these diseases which is what is so frustrating as different antibiotics/combinations of antibiotics will work for some and not others. That is why we really need the government to put more money into research for a cure to this growing epidemic!

Hi Annette,
I am not sure really. Some doctors in the US definitely treat aggressively. Perhaps Germany and New Zealand. I don’t know either about doctors going around insurance companies.
All the best in health,
Danielle

Annette, No ins. companies will pay for long term chronic or late stage Lyme disease as far as I knowin the U.S or anyplace else. They will only pay for I believe 4-6 weeks of oral antibiotics if you test postive, see the tick and the bulls-eye rash. In other words; if you catch it early enough.

What an amazing doc. I had lyme 10 years ago and had a doctor that would listen. I initially thought I had a spider bite because that is what it looked like. Only weeks later did I remember pulling ticks off in my sleep. After that the pain of initial antibiotic treatment was horrendous. My doctor who is also a lifelong friend listed to me and what I found out. I saw my symptoms only matched up with lyme so he treated me for it and I slowly got better. Its a terrible thing for so many to go untreated.

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